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Chicago examiner vol xiii no 160 a m saturday Chicago june 26 1915 saturday ufelstired c s pate:it office priff dnf cp nt ta Chicago and elsf.whkitk riot when u.s stops 500 slavson way to war police pen serbians on train , at dearborn station after they charge marshal with knives fifty patrolmen rushed to aid of marshal bradley and ten of his deputies fifteen united states deputy mar shals under chief john j bradley found themselves helpless last night m the midst of scores of angry im passioned slavs when they halted a train leaving dearborn station on which several hundred serbians and montenegrins were going to canada to board a ship for europe to fight for the allies the deputies were forced to release their prisoners and retire marshal bradley sending m a riot call to the detective bureau and police head quarters bo police rush to aid fifty policemen from the south lark street and other downtown sta tions came on the run with half a dozen patrol wagons and a little later came hinton g clabaugh chief of the Chicago division of the bureau of justice with another score of deputy i'nited states marshals and a dozen investigators of that department thus reinforced with policemen . !.â– : i-..n-.;|i;il.i m ea*ili car of the long train stenographers and interpreters brought by chief clabaugh questioned each one of the two hundred or more supposed reservists to ascertain which of them were united states citizens formed into a military com pany and leaving this country with intent to make war against a coun try with which the united states is at peace m violation of section 10 of the revised statutes which deals with violations of the nations neutrality 23 held as v s citizexs in the end after the train and all its passengers had been detained for four hours twenty-three of the re servists alleged to be united states citizens either native born or nat uralized were arrested taken off the train and to the harrison street sta tion house then at 12:33 a m the train was allowed to start for a second time for london ontario as the train pulled out of the station bugles sounded national airs of montenegro and ser bia and hundreds of compatriots of the departing soldiers who had massed at the station gates joined m the demonstration the train was originally scheduled to leave at 8:30 o'clock it made its first start out of the depot at 8:45 but chief clabaugh a moment later got the wabash railroad officials on the telephone and asked that the train be stopped signals were sent all along the line and at twelfth street the engineer reversed his en gine and came slowly back to the station taken for geiiax spies some of the invstigators of the department of justice with stenog raphers were already on the train questioning the reservists and the latter were m angry mood as the train slowed up m the depot it was shouted from coach to coach that the invaders were german spies who in tended to blow up the train the noise became deafening and some of the investigators were tlwown from the cars by angry slavs six or eight of the serbians drew knives and threatened investigates and deputy marshals and the latter drew revol vers deputy marshal john h anderson seized a man who had drawn a knife on him and with the help of two other deputies got the handcuffs on the man with their prisoner the deputies moved along the platform towards the station entrance but scores of reservists crowded out of the rear cars of the train intercepted the deputies and made such a threatening demonstration that an derson was obliged to take off the handcuffs and release the prisoner several other serbians and mon tenegrins were taken into custody by other marshals among this num ler being nicholas nicholio of gary id who headed a company of fifteen j len from that city michael stevanovitch of cedar rap ! is was handcuffed to an iron bar ear the chlcagoan because of his iiouu which excited others that school girl held for black hand note to father wife of landlord and friend also defendant m novel extor tion case when herman w langfeldt of morton grove received the first of a series of black hand letters seven weeks ago he reported the matter to the police of the village when the preliminary hearing was held thursday he discovered that his own sixteen-year-old daughter mary a school girl was one of the suspects arrested the other was the wife of rudolph blischke his landlord and friend last december langfeldt and his four children of whom mary is the oldest rented the upper floor of the blischke home the morning Â° may 17 i note was found on the porch addressed to h l and signed the black hand it said get me 35 here to-night or your life will be taken langfeldt reported to the police placed the money on the porch that night and waited no one appeared the police found that langfeldfs daughter had consulted a lawyer m an effort to be freed from the au thority of her father the trial has been postponed until june 9 25,000 not enough for florman's wife by international new service new york june 25 â€” although she will not be twenty-one years of age until next december mrs olga v florman wife ot nils florman 777 madison avenue finds it impossible to live on her income of 525,000 a year she to-day applied to the sur rogate's court for permission to draw a lump sum of 25,000 this year from the principal of a 300,000 trust fund which her father left for her nils florman was once the fiance of miss helen stallo she jilted him and he was later reported engaged to kath erine force sister of mrs john ja cob astor this report was denied bobbie beresford to wed english girl by international ws service new york june 25 â€” the hon seto.n r beresford widely known m europe as the hero of kimberley and as the brother of lord decies and known here as bobbie beresford all-around sportsman is engaged to marry miss rosemary graves-sawle daughter of rear admiral sir charles graves-sawle m v 0 and lady graves-sawle of penrice st austel cornwall england according to an nouncement made to-day it had been reported that beresford was engaged to an american girl his brother lord decies married vivien gould archbishop quigley regaining health by international sem service atlantic city n j june 25 â€” archbishop joseph e quigley of chi cago was to-night reported m much improved health at the st charles hotel here and will return home m the very near future the rt rev quigley came to atlantic city two weeks ago for his health accompa nied by dr connelly of Chicago and the rev edward hoban chancellor of the diocese of Chicago the archbishop leaves en route for home to-morrow but will make a lengthy visit at rochester third g 0 p convention forchicago fred w upham national com mitteeman announces 30 of 52 members have pledged votes Chicago will have the republican national convention next june the third succpssive presidential nomi nating convention of the republican party to be held here this announcement was made yes terday by fred w upham republi can national committeeman at a luncheon given m the hamilton club where a committee was named with upham as chairman to adopt ways and means for furthering the plans thirty of the fifty vo members of the national committee have pledged their votes to bring the convention to Chicago said upham giving a majority even if the vacancy from west virginia on the national com mittee is filled more than a month a go i was told philadelphia and st louis were seek ing the convention said upham yes terday i sent letters to my friends on the committee and have received replies already from thirty pledging their support to Chicago third straight for Chicago the national committee meets m washington m december of this year to pick the meeting place for next june and with the pledges already in my hands there is no question about Chicago gettir.g the convention the fact that it will be the third con secutive republican nominating con vention for Chicago it is said ought to be sufficient argument that chi cago is the best convention city m the country the meeting was held m the ham ilton club because m upham's opin ion the club deserved the right to start the open movement this com mittee was named to push things along fred w upham chairman william hale thompson charles s deneen joseph h defrees bernard e sun ny george m reynolds alexander h revell robert s lies william b austin marquis eaton homer a stilwell henry r rathbone james w stevens nelson m lampert ed win w sims guy guernsey arthur t cavey emil c wetten lucius teter a meeting of this committee will be held early next week to start a plan of active campaigning to pre pare for the convention it is a long time until next june said upham but a national conven tion is a big thing and we don't want to have any slipups democrats active too with the republican convention assured roger sullivan said twenty of the necessary twenty-seven pledges to bring the democratic con vention have been assured and that plans are under way to get the other seven a committee similar to the repub lican committee is being formed it is probable sullivan will be chairman but the complete membership is not yet known charles boeschenstein democratic national committeeman is working for the convention and it is probable governor dunne former mayor harrison and possibly senator james hamilton lewis will be on the committee editors m both Illinois and indiana already have declared for Chicago by their indorsements and the other twenty state pledges came directly from the state committeemen americans are threatened in turk capital u s note to germany on subma rine warfare rouses intense bitterness m constantinople Â».' international news service london june 25 â€” news agency dispatches from athens state that intense indignation has been caused at constantinople by the american government's note to germany with reference to submarine warfare citizens of the united states are said to be threatened on the streets being considered by the turks as inimical as british french or rus sian subjects receiver asked for city of nashville by international keira service nashville term june 25 â€” praying for a receivership to take charge of the financial affairs of the city m a bill m the chancery court was followed to-day by the arrest of charles a myers city treasurer charged with fraudulently appropri ating 10,000 of the interest money of the municipality he was held to the grand jury m 20,000 bail these sensational turns followed the theft of eleven additional city hall cash and revenue books in the meantime holders of millions of nashville bonds in the east and north are express ing anxiety with over 2,000,000 of bonds placed recently and one-half of the amount to cover a known deficit that has lsated for years gary furnaces open to full capacity hj international civ service gary june 25 â€” the eighth blast furnace was placed m operation at the gary plant of the indiana steel company to-day thereby making iron production 100 per cent it is the first time since 1912 that all furnaces were active twp additional open-hearth furnaces having been fired up to morrow the aetna explosives com pany will meet the largest pay roll m its history willys overland co votes 5 per ct raise by international x*w service toledo 0 june 25 â€” almost 11 000 employes of the willys overland automobile company to-day received a gratuitous 6 per cent increase m wages this will increase the com pany's pay roll 525,000 the first year officials say the pay roll now aver ages 1,000,000 a month officials say the loyalty of the employes caused them to vote for the advance in wages poet d'annunzio is war historian by international newh service rome june 25 â€” general cadorna has assigned gabriele d'annunzlo the poet to the staff of the duke of aosta and has appointed him official historian of the war d'annuzio will be enabled to witness the important events of the campaign and describe them for future generations clean up the town for clark wedding hj international xetvs service bowling green mo june 25 the mayor of bowling green has is sued an official proclamation m which he urges citizens to cut weeds and gather up tin cans to make the town immaculate for the wedding of genevieve clark on june 30 readin ritin and rithmetic forgotten pupils of the public schools yester day began their summer vacations all graduation records were broken there were 14,981 graduates the high schools giving diplomas to 2,938 or 306 more than m 1914 and the ele mentary schools to 12,043 exceeding ast year's total by 842 the weather Chicago and vicinity â€” generally fair to-day and to-mor row followed by showers by to morrow night rising tempera ture moderate easterly shifting to southerly winds yesterday's temperatures highest 71 lowest 55 average 63 russia wins 3 victories on dniester spain and roumania to join allies soon u s will put great britain to test munitions punts raid armyofu.s arsenal officers and workers quit induced by the higher wages of private factories by international new service washington june 25 â€” after a conference to-morrow between secre tary lansing and representatives of the great importing firms of new york city and other cities a plan will be formulated to test the sincerity of great britain's protestations that she has no disposition unnecessarily to injure american commerce the plan is to station a general agent of the importers m england who will get and present m advance of all sailings duplicate bills of lad ing certified to and unobjectionable m every respect so as to leave no shadow of excuse for prize court pro ceedings against vessels from neutral ports to the united states or vice versa this proposition will be a complete counter to the intention of great britain as stated by lord crewe hereafter to send vessels immediately to prize courts and abandon diploma cy as a means of settlement will protest blockade at the same time a protest is to be made against the operation of british orders m council and the al leged blockade which prevents ille gally the exportation of about 50 000,000 worth of goods practically owned now by american importers m germany the protests of importers will de tail of course past and present im pairments of the business of impor ters it is stated that at rotterdam there are millions of dollars worth of goods to which no taint or suspicion of fraud could be attached and sub stantially owned by the united states which cannot come out because to all intents and purposes great brit ain regards rotterdam and other neu tral ports as blockaded call note misleading state department officials who have now had time to review lord crewe's note declared to-day that it is m ad dition to the defects pointed out to day irrelevant and misleading one official said that the result of the attitude of great britain as re vealed by lord crewe will be that the united states will make a flat de mand on great britain that neutral ships carrying noncontraband cargoes shall be unmolested m passage to neutral ports war factories raiding army united states army officers and i skilled workmen at united states ar senals are responding to the demand for executives and skilled labor due to the enormous expansion m the manufacture of war munitions m this country it was stated at the war depart ment to-day that a number of offi cers of the army had resigned with the intention of accepting lucrative jobs at private manufactories of war munitions the names of the officers are not made public but their right to resign m time of peace has been challenged by the department the question has been referred to the attorney general it was also lamed to-day that many of the machinists and other high class workmen at the frankford ar senal the picatinny government works and at springfield arsenal are anxious to leave the government em | ployment to go with private concerns | that offer them at least 25 per cent ! more wages retreat in galicia ends 111 victory slavs crush the austro-german advance south of lemberg and inflict enormous losses by international ne-wn service london june 25 at three points on the dniester river ac cording to claims made m petrogruu to-day the austro-germans have been defeated with losses which are described as enormous and part oi general von linsingen's army bus been driven back to the south bain of the river near halicz this reverse is admitted by ber lin but it is asserted that on the upper part of the river the german troops are advancing vienna reports the capture of chodorow which is seventeen miles below halicz and the same distance south of lemberg this was efferted by a force coming from the west it zydaczow on the road to stryj it ta asserted also that the russian coun ter attacks on the north bank of the dniester were repulsed but the grea battle there is still m progress desperate resistance the austrians say the russians a.n resisting desperately on the dniester especially m the center m order to permit their retreating armica to save their war materials it is believed by military experts here that the immediate aim of the austro-german commanders is less an advance on russian territory than a menace to the russian lines on the dniester and envelopment m the rear along the lemberg-bzezany railroad from this it is inferred that a fierce struggle for possession of the river line is imminent teutons on defensive though the austro-germans have captured a new section on the left bank they wero unable to hold it and advance further but have been compelled to assume a desperate de fensive at a meeting of the central muni tions committee m petrograd satis factory progress was reported m the task of providing army supplies and the work of the projectile section which recently perfected a scries of measures for expediting the manu facture of munitions semi-official advices from vienna state that the russian headquarters m galicia have been removed on to russian territory judge gray is failing by international pm service newport june 25 â€” the condition of judge john clinton gray of new york who was stricken with apo plexy a short time after his arrival here on wednesday is growing worse pneumonia has developed and he is reported very low german reply to promise due regard for neutrals the hague june 25 â€” a report received here from berlin says that germany m her reply to the american pro test m the lusitania case will declare that she will stand out for the freedom of the seas but will try to have due regard for the rights of neutrals and incidentally will show her appreciation of the friendship of the united states what is described as president wilson's willingness to mediate to bring about a modification of great britain's food blockade of germany is accepted as a further mark of such friendship germany it is said will intimate rather broadly that perhaps she was mistaken m her assertion that the lusitania was armed and she will show that she is willing to modify her methods of submarine warfare so far as regards neutral merchantmen provided that her submarines are secured from attacks by such merchant ships and that the misuse of neutral flags is stopped russians reach end of retreat by frederick rennett by international new service petrograd june 25 â€” the ilua sians have reached the end of their masterly retreat quietly and suddera ly they turned on the germans and m the extreme south inflicted a heavy defeat upon them along the dniester here the russian commander reports heavy and light artillery contributed greatly to the victory the entire line of the germans is diverted widely to the southeast to meet their new position at halicz but the russians continue to press them against the river with terrible losses meanwhile the russian cavalry has sabered and driven forth the germans from a number of villages near rawa ruska general von mackensen's army is tired and passive near lemberg with archduko joseph's army on the left of the germans and general von boehm-ermolli on the right and twenty corps waiting m reserve even this colossal host hesitates owing to the strength of the russian positions the entire operation is a great stra tegic triumph for the russians it is evident that the germans mu#t wÂ«lt until the great battle of tin drive into galicia is balkan aim bulgaria and greece expected | to follow action illness ofj greek king delays intervention london june 25 â€” reports received here from madrid as sert that spain is rapidly plac ing 500,000 men on a war foot ing and m all likelihood will en ter the war on the side of the al lies m two months or sooner it is planned to call out m sep tember for the annual maneuvers not only the present year's re cruits hut also those of last year factories are all working day and night on small arms cannon and shells spain has tried to preserve strict neutrality but it is said m political circles that she is fast approaching a point where this will not longer be possible by international xewn service rome june 25 â€” the balkans are about to thrust themselves into the great european conflict according to information of the most trustworthy sort received here to-day m diplo matic circles within a week it is declared rou mania will be at war her first act will be an attack upon thp rear flank of the austro-germans m galicia who are now celebrating their vic tory there over the russians roumania will make as an excuse for entering the conflict a demand for the cession of transylvania which will unquestionably be refused by austro-hungary it is declared here that the roumanian envoy at vienna has already been instructed to de mand the cession of transylvania the consequences for the intervention will be then placed upon the aus trians according to reports the rouma nians are already preparing for war the wheat crop has been harvested and the people are eager to get into action following closely the action of roumania bulgaria and greece are expected to enter the war greece's intervention is being delayed only by the illness of the king this emergency is likely to be met by the appointment of a regent who wili probably be one of the brothers of the king the crown prince is wholly under the influence of his german mother and is directly or in directly under the away of his uncle emperor william italians in new drive near trent 8y andre beaumont capture carsano 24 miles east of city and silence forts m val vessena 14 miles southeast special to cnicago examiner and iondon telegraph milan june 25 â€” the italians making further progress m the val sugano have occupied carsano three kilometers north of borgo and twen ty-four miles east of trent showing that the columns following the course of the river brenta have penetrated m a westerly direction almost thir teen miles into austrian territory in their onward march they have oc cupied tezze grigno ospedaletto strigno and castel nuovo at borgo the italians will be with in twenty-two miles of trent and also will occupy a favorable position at an important center with good motor roads leading into the valleys of cave and campobello progress also has been made m the valle cismon where the italians now occupy monte belvedere which gives them command of the whole fiera di primiero group similar progress has been made m the val vessena under the austrian forts of folgaria and lavarone where the italian bat teries have reduced to silence the forts of spitzverle busaverle and lunci fourteen miles southeast of trent port lli-v-i 1 dismantled the upper and lower works of fort hensel at malborghetto have been dismantled and italian shells now are pounding at the vital parts of this great fortress the cupola in which the austrians had a 12-inch gun has been demolished the austrians are bo hard pressed at plezzo that they have begun the construction of fresh lines of de fense upon which the italians have advanced as far as javorck between monte nero and plezzo italians occupy < l.iul \ on the southern isonzo front the italian troops have driven the aus trians from the last points they held at the extremity of the carso hills where the austrians threatened the railway line between gradisca and monfalcone the retreat of the austrians at these points leaves the italians in full control of direct communication between the towns as well as com mand of the highways of ronchi the italians also have occupied globna north of plava and the whole course of hilly spurs between sa grado and monfalcone in gorizia only the soldiers remain it is believed the town cannot hold out much longer there have arrived at ancona 270 residents of trieste who say 250,000 soldiers are stationed there to defend the city against the threatened ital ian attack continued on 4th page 2d column jextr 1 1 based on solid rock are jmi j chicago's realty values jj ji j because Chicago is composed largely of home riiffifllnm loving home-making people real estate values jjfl lift here have a firm foundation jj | those who buy property for investment are w counterbalanced by those who buy for home build v \ ing purposes that's why chicago's realty values el i j^tj are based on solid rock â€” a foundation whose firm ness is fixed on a home-loving instinct jjsj ii and that's why real estate men make such at gj tractive offerings m subdivision and city residence property their ads over m the real estate adver tising columns list chicago's present possibilities perhaps you will find m these columns the par ticular proposition you have been looking for but i if not to-day then to-morrow a daily reading will i jry profitably repay the reader lhhojii Chicago examiner ssgjk the newspaper of the home

Chicago examiner vol xiii no 160 a m saturday Chicago june 26 1915 saturday ufelstired c s pate:it office priff dnf cp nt ta Chicago and elsf.whkitk riot when u.s stops 500 slavson way to war police pen serbians on train , at dearborn station after they charge marshal with knives fifty patrolmen rushed to aid of marshal bradley and ten of his deputies fifteen united states deputy mar shals under chief john j bradley found themselves helpless last night m the midst of scores of angry im passioned slavs when they halted a train leaving dearborn station on which several hundred serbians and montenegrins were going to canada to board a ship for europe to fight for the allies the deputies were forced to release their prisoners and retire marshal bradley sending m a riot call to the detective bureau and police head quarters bo police rush to aid fifty policemen from the south lark street and other downtown sta tions came on the run with half a dozen patrol wagons and a little later came hinton g clabaugh chief of the Chicago division of the bureau of justice with another score of deputy i'nited states marshals and a dozen investigators of that department thus reinforced with policemen . !.â– : i-..n-.;|i;il.i m ea*ili car of the long train stenographers and interpreters brought by chief clabaugh questioned each one of the two hundred or more supposed reservists to ascertain which of them were united states citizens formed into a military com pany and leaving this country with intent to make war against a coun try with which the united states is at peace m violation of section 10 of the revised statutes which deals with violations of the nations neutrality 23 held as v s citizexs in the end after the train and all its passengers had been detained for four hours twenty-three of the re servists alleged to be united states citizens either native born or nat uralized were arrested taken off the train and to the harrison street sta tion house then at 12:33 a m the train was allowed to start for a second time for london ontario as the train pulled out of the station bugles sounded national airs of montenegro and ser bia and hundreds of compatriots of the departing soldiers who had massed at the station gates joined m the demonstration the train was originally scheduled to leave at 8:30 o'clock it made its first start out of the depot at 8:45 but chief clabaugh a moment later got the wabash railroad officials on the telephone and asked that the train be stopped signals were sent all along the line and at twelfth street the engineer reversed his en gine and came slowly back to the station taken for geiiax spies some of the invstigators of the department of justice with stenog raphers were already on the train questioning the reservists and the latter were m angry mood as the train slowed up m the depot it was shouted from coach to coach that the invaders were german spies who in tended to blow up the train the noise became deafening and some of the investigators were tlwown from the cars by angry slavs six or eight of the serbians drew knives and threatened investigates and deputy marshals and the latter drew revol vers deputy marshal john h anderson seized a man who had drawn a knife on him and with the help of two other deputies got the handcuffs on the man with their prisoner the deputies moved along the platform towards the station entrance but scores of reservists crowded out of the rear cars of the train intercepted the deputies and made such a threatening demonstration that an derson was obliged to take off the handcuffs and release the prisoner several other serbians and mon tenegrins were taken into custody by other marshals among this num ler being nicholas nicholio of gary id who headed a company of fifteen j len from that city michael stevanovitch of cedar rap ! is was handcuffed to an iron bar ear the chlcagoan because of his iiouu which excited others that school girl held for black hand note to father wife of landlord and friend also defendant m novel extor tion case when herman w langfeldt of morton grove received the first of a series of black hand letters seven weeks ago he reported the matter to the police of the village when the preliminary hearing was held thursday he discovered that his own sixteen-year-old daughter mary a school girl was one of the suspects arrested the other was the wife of rudolph blischke his landlord and friend last december langfeldt and his four children of whom mary is the oldest rented the upper floor of the blischke home the morning Â° may 17 i note was found on the porch addressed to h l and signed the black hand it said get me 35 here to-night or your life will be taken langfeldt reported to the police placed the money on the porch that night and waited no one appeared the police found that langfeldfs daughter had consulted a lawyer m an effort to be freed from the au thority of her father the trial has been postponed until june 9 25,000 not enough for florman's wife by international new service new york june 25 â€” although she will not be twenty-one years of age until next december mrs olga v florman wife ot nils florman 777 madison avenue finds it impossible to live on her income of 525,000 a year she to-day applied to the sur rogate's court for permission to draw a lump sum of 25,000 this year from the principal of a 300,000 trust fund which her father left for her nils florman was once the fiance of miss helen stallo she jilted him and he was later reported engaged to kath erine force sister of mrs john ja cob astor this report was denied bobbie beresford to wed english girl by international ws service new york june 25 â€” the hon seto.n r beresford widely known m europe as the hero of kimberley and as the brother of lord decies and known here as bobbie beresford all-around sportsman is engaged to marry miss rosemary graves-sawle daughter of rear admiral sir charles graves-sawle m v 0 and lady graves-sawle of penrice st austel cornwall england according to an nouncement made to-day it had been reported that beresford was engaged to an american girl his brother lord decies married vivien gould archbishop quigley regaining health by international sem service atlantic city n j june 25 â€” archbishop joseph e quigley of chi cago was to-night reported m much improved health at the st charles hotel here and will return home m the very near future the rt rev quigley came to atlantic city two weeks ago for his health accompa nied by dr connelly of Chicago and the rev edward hoban chancellor of the diocese of Chicago the archbishop leaves en route for home to-morrow but will make a lengthy visit at rochester third g 0 p convention forchicago fred w upham national com mitteeman announces 30 of 52 members have pledged votes Chicago will have the republican national convention next june the third succpssive presidential nomi nating convention of the republican party to be held here this announcement was made yes terday by fred w upham republi can national committeeman at a luncheon given m the hamilton club where a committee was named with upham as chairman to adopt ways and means for furthering the plans thirty of the fifty vo members of the national committee have pledged their votes to bring the convention to Chicago said upham giving a majority even if the vacancy from west virginia on the national com mittee is filled more than a month a go i was told philadelphia and st louis were seek ing the convention said upham yes terday i sent letters to my friends on the committee and have received replies already from thirty pledging their support to Chicago third straight for Chicago the national committee meets m washington m december of this year to pick the meeting place for next june and with the pledges already in my hands there is no question about Chicago gettir.g the convention the fact that it will be the third con secutive republican nominating con vention for Chicago it is said ought to be sufficient argument that chi cago is the best convention city m the country the meeting was held m the ham ilton club because m upham's opin ion the club deserved the right to start the open movement this com mittee was named to push things along fred w upham chairman william hale thompson charles s deneen joseph h defrees bernard e sun ny george m reynolds alexander h revell robert s lies william b austin marquis eaton homer a stilwell henry r rathbone james w stevens nelson m lampert ed win w sims guy guernsey arthur t cavey emil c wetten lucius teter a meeting of this committee will be held early next week to start a plan of active campaigning to pre pare for the convention it is a long time until next june said upham but a national conven tion is a big thing and we don't want to have any slipups democrats active too with the republican convention assured roger sullivan said twenty of the necessary twenty-seven pledges to bring the democratic con vention have been assured and that plans are under way to get the other seven a committee similar to the repub lican committee is being formed it is probable sullivan will be chairman but the complete membership is not yet known charles boeschenstein democratic national committeeman is working for the convention and it is probable governor dunne former mayor harrison and possibly senator james hamilton lewis will be on the committee editors m both Illinois and indiana already have declared for Chicago by their indorsements and the other twenty state pledges came directly from the state committeemen americans are threatened in turk capital u s note to germany on subma rine warfare rouses intense bitterness m constantinople Â».' international news service london june 25 â€” news agency dispatches from athens state that intense indignation has been caused at constantinople by the american government's note to germany with reference to submarine warfare citizens of the united states are said to be threatened on the streets being considered by the turks as inimical as british french or rus sian subjects receiver asked for city of nashville by international keira service nashville term june 25 â€” praying for a receivership to take charge of the financial affairs of the city m a bill m the chancery court was followed to-day by the arrest of charles a myers city treasurer charged with fraudulently appropri ating 10,000 of the interest money of the municipality he was held to the grand jury m 20,000 bail these sensational turns followed the theft of eleven additional city hall cash and revenue books in the meantime holders of millions of nashville bonds in the east and north are express ing anxiety with over 2,000,000 of bonds placed recently and one-half of the amount to cover a known deficit that has lsated for years gary furnaces open to full capacity hj international civ service gary june 25 â€” the eighth blast furnace was placed m operation at the gary plant of the indiana steel company to-day thereby making iron production 100 per cent it is the first time since 1912 that all furnaces were active twp additional open-hearth furnaces having been fired up to morrow the aetna explosives com pany will meet the largest pay roll m its history willys overland co votes 5 per ct raise by international x*w service toledo 0 june 25 â€” almost 11 000 employes of the willys overland automobile company to-day received a gratuitous 6 per cent increase m wages this will increase the com pany's pay roll 525,000 the first year officials say the pay roll now aver ages 1,000,000 a month officials say the loyalty of the employes caused them to vote for the advance in wages poet d'annunzio is war historian by international newh service rome june 25 â€” general cadorna has assigned gabriele d'annunzlo the poet to the staff of the duke of aosta and has appointed him official historian of the war d'annuzio will be enabled to witness the important events of the campaign and describe them for future generations clean up the town for clark wedding hj international xetvs service bowling green mo june 25 the mayor of bowling green has is sued an official proclamation m which he urges citizens to cut weeds and gather up tin cans to make the town immaculate for the wedding of genevieve clark on june 30 readin ritin and rithmetic forgotten pupils of the public schools yester day began their summer vacations all graduation records were broken there were 14,981 graduates the high schools giving diplomas to 2,938 or 306 more than m 1914 and the ele mentary schools to 12,043 exceeding ast year's total by 842 the weather Chicago and vicinity â€” generally fair to-day and to-mor row followed by showers by to morrow night rising tempera ture moderate easterly shifting to southerly winds yesterday's temperatures highest 71 lowest 55 average 63 russia wins 3 victories on dniester spain and roumania to join allies soon u s will put great britain to test munitions punts raid armyofu.s arsenal officers and workers quit induced by the higher wages of private factories by international new service washington june 25 â€” after a conference to-morrow between secre tary lansing and representatives of the great importing firms of new york city and other cities a plan will be formulated to test the sincerity of great britain's protestations that she has no disposition unnecessarily to injure american commerce the plan is to station a general agent of the importers m england who will get and present m advance of all sailings duplicate bills of lad ing certified to and unobjectionable m every respect so as to leave no shadow of excuse for prize court pro ceedings against vessels from neutral ports to the united states or vice versa this proposition will be a complete counter to the intention of great britain as stated by lord crewe hereafter to send vessels immediately to prize courts and abandon diploma cy as a means of settlement will protest blockade at the same time a protest is to be made against the operation of british orders m council and the al leged blockade which prevents ille gally the exportation of about 50 000,000 worth of goods practically owned now by american importers m germany the protests of importers will de tail of course past and present im pairments of the business of impor ters it is stated that at rotterdam there are millions of dollars worth of goods to which no taint or suspicion of fraud could be attached and sub stantially owned by the united states which cannot come out because to all intents and purposes great brit ain regards rotterdam and other neu tral ports as blockaded call note misleading state department officials who have now had time to review lord crewe's note declared to-day that it is m ad dition to the defects pointed out to day irrelevant and misleading one official said that the result of the attitude of great britain as re vealed by lord crewe will be that the united states will make a flat de mand on great britain that neutral ships carrying noncontraband cargoes shall be unmolested m passage to neutral ports war factories raiding army united states army officers and i skilled workmen at united states ar senals are responding to the demand for executives and skilled labor due to the enormous expansion m the manufacture of war munitions m this country it was stated at the war depart ment to-day that a number of offi cers of the army had resigned with the intention of accepting lucrative jobs at private manufactories of war munitions the names of the officers are not made public but their right to resign m time of peace has been challenged by the department the question has been referred to the attorney general it was also lamed to-day that many of the machinists and other high class workmen at the frankford ar senal the picatinny government works and at springfield arsenal are anxious to leave the government em | ployment to go with private concerns | that offer them at least 25 per cent ! more wages retreat in galicia ends 111 victory slavs crush the austro-german advance south of lemberg and inflict enormous losses by international ne-wn service london june 25 at three points on the dniester river ac cording to claims made m petrogruu to-day the austro-germans have been defeated with losses which are described as enormous and part oi general von linsingen's army bus been driven back to the south bain of the river near halicz this reverse is admitted by ber lin but it is asserted that on the upper part of the river the german troops are advancing vienna reports the capture of chodorow which is seventeen miles below halicz and the same distance south of lemberg this was efferted by a force coming from the west it zydaczow on the road to stryj it ta asserted also that the russian coun ter attacks on the north bank of the dniester were repulsed but the grea battle there is still m progress desperate resistance the austrians say the russians a.n resisting desperately on the dniester especially m the center m order to permit their retreating armica to save their war materials it is believed by military experts here that the immediate aim of the austro-german commanders is less an advance on russian territory than a menace to the russian lines on the dniester and envelopment m the rear along the lemberg-bzezany railroad from this it is inferred that a fierce struggle for possession of the river line is imminent teutons on defensive though the austro-germans have captured a new section on the left bank they wero unable to hold it and advance further but have been compelled to assume a desperate de fensive at a meeting of the central muni tions committee m petrograd satis factory progress was reported m the task of providing army supplies and the work of the projectile section which recently perfected a scries of measures for expediting the manu facture of munitions semi-official advices from vienna state that the russian headquarters m galicia have been removed on to russian territory judge gray is failing by international pm service newport june 25 â€” the condition of judge john clinton gray of new york who was stricken with apo plexy a short time after his arrival here on wednesday is growing worse pneumonia has developed and he is reported very low german reply to promise due regard for neutrals the hague june 25 â€” a report received here from berlin says that germany m her reply to the american pro test m the lusitania case will declare that she will stand out for the freedom of the seas but will try to have due regard for the rights of neutrals and incidentally will show her appreciation of the friendship of the united states what is described as president wilson's willingness to mediate to bring about a modification of great britain's food blockade of germany is accepted as a further mark of such friendship germany it is said will intimate rather broadly that perhaps she was mistaken m her assertion that the lusitania was armed and she will show that she is willing to modify her methods of submarine warfare so far as regards neutral merchantmen provided that her submarines are secured from attacks by such merchant ships and that the misuse of neutral flags is stopped russians reach end of retreat by frederick rennett by international new service petrograd june 25 â€” the ilua sians have reached the end of their masterly retreat quietly and suddera ly they turned on the germans and m the extreme south inflicted a heavy defeat upon them along the dniester here the russian commander reports heavy and light artillery contributed greatly to the victory the entire line of the germans is diverted widely to the southeast to meet their new position at halicz but the russians continue to press them against the river with terrible losses meanwhile the russian cavalry has sabered and driven forth the germans from a number of villages near rawa ruska general von mackensen's army is tired and passive near lemberg with archduko joseph's army on the left of the germans and general von boehm-ermolli on the right and twenty corps waiting m reserve even this colossal host hesitates owing to the strength of the russian positions the entire operation is a great stra tegic triumph for the russians it is evident that the germans mu#t wÂ«lt until the great battle of tin drive into galicia is balkan aim bulgaria and greece expected | to follow action illness ofj greek king delays intervention london june 25 â€” reports received here from madrid as sert that spain is rapidly plac ing 500,000 men on a war foot ing and m all likelihood will en ter the war on the side of the al lies m two months or sooner it is planned to call out m sep tember for the annual maneuvers not only the present year's re cruits hut also those of last year factories are all working day and night on small arms cannon and shells spain has tried to preserve strict neutrality but it is said m political circles that she is fast approaching a point where this will not longer be possible by international xewn service rome june 25 â€” the balkans are about to thrust themselves into the great european conflict according to information of the most trustworthy sort received here to-day m diplo matic circles within a week it is declared rou mania will be at war her first act will be an attack upon thp rear flank of the austro-germans m galicia who are now celebrating their vic tory there over the russians roumania will make as an excuse for entering the conflict a demand for the cession of transylvania which will unquestionably be refused by austro-hungary it is declared here that the roumanian envoy at vienna has already been instructed to de mand the cession of transylvania the consequences for the intervention will be then placed upon the aus trians according to reports the rouma nians are already preparing for war the wheat crop has been harvested and the people are eager to get into action following closely the action of roumania bulgaria and greece are expected to enter the war greece's intervention is being delayed only by the illness of the king this emergency is likely to be met by the appointment of a regent who wili probably be one of the brothers of the king the crown prince is wholly under the influence of his german mother and is directly or in directly under the away of his uncle emperor william italians in new drive near trent 8y andre beaumont capture carsano 24 miles east of city and silence forts m val vessena 14 miles southeast special to cnicago examiner and iondon telegraph milan june 25 â€” the italians making further progress m the val sugano have occupied carsano three kilometers north of borgo and twen ty-four miles east of trent showing that the columns following the course of the river brenta have penetrated m a westerly direction almost thir teen miles into austrian territory in their onward march they have oc cupied tezze grigno ospedaletto strigno and castel nuovo at borgo the italians will be with in twenty-two miles of trent and also will occupy a favorable position at an important center with good motor roads leading into the valleys of cave and campobello progress also has been made m the valle cismon where the italians now occupy monte belvedere which gives them command of the whole fiera di primiero group similar progress has been made m the val vessena under the austrian forts of folgaria and lavarone where the italian bat teries have reduced to silence the forts of spitzverle busaverle and lunci fourteen miles southeast of trent port lli-v-i 1 dismantled the upper and lower works of fort hensel at malborghetto have been dismantled and italian shells now are pounding at the vital parts of this great fortress the cupola in which the austrians had a 12-inch gun has been demolished the austrians are bo hard pressed at plezzo that they have begun the construction of fresh lines of de fense upon which the italians have advanced as far as javorck between monte nero and plezzo italians occupy < l.iul \ on the southern isonzo front the italian troops have driven the aus trians from the last points they held at the extremity of the carso hills where the austrians threatened the railway line between gradisca and monfalcone the retreat of the austrians at these points leaves the italians in full control of direct communication between the towns as well as com mand of the highways of ronchi the italians also have occupied globna north of plava and the whole course of hilly spurs between sa grado and monfalcone in gorizia only the soldiers remain it is believed the town cannot hold out much longer there have arrived at ancona 270 residents of trieste who say 250,000 soldiers are stationed there to defend the city against the threatened ital ian attack continued on 4th page 2d column jextr 1 1 based on solid rock are jmi j chicago's realty values jj ji j because Chicago is composed largely of home riiffifllnm loving home-making people real estate values jjfl lift here have a firm foundation jj | those who buy property for investment are w counterbalanced by those who buy for home build v \ ing purposes that's why chicago's realty values el i j^tj are based on solid rock â€” a foundation whose firm ness is fixed on a home-loving instinct jjsj ii and that's why real estate men make such at gj tractive offerings m subdivision and city residence property their ads over m the real estate adver tising columns list chicago's present possibilities perhaps you will find m these columns the par ticular proposition you have been looking for but i if not to-day then to-morrow a daily reading will i jry profitably repay the reader lhhojii Chicago examiner ssgjk the newspaper of the home